[201] For the thought, cp. Catull. Pel.et Thet. ad fin. ‘praesentes namque ante domos invisere castas
heroum et sese mortali ostendere coetucaelicolae, nondum spreta pietate, solebant . .
sed postquam . .
quare nec tales dignantur visere coetus,
nec se contingi patiuntur lumine claro.’
πάρος is used with present tense, as in Od.4. 811, etc.